Actor
Enzo Staiola
Born 1939-11-15Died 2025-06-04aged 85
Enzo Staiola (1939–2025) is best known for The Barefoot Contessa, The Return of Don Camillo and Bicycle Thieves.
Enzo Staiola (15 November 1939 – 4 June 2025) was an Italian actor, best known for playing, at the age of eight, the role of Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves. He appeared in several other films including, in 1954, the American-produced The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart. As an adult he became a mathematics teacher and later also worked as a land registry clerk.
Staiola died after a fall on 4 June 2025, at the age of 85.